Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-05 | Page 19 | Flood of Booze Pouring over Line

I FLOOD OF BOOZE I POURING OVER LINE Perturbation at News That U. U S. S Will Interfere GREAT FALLS Mont Dec 4 Professional bootleggers who are arede de declared de de- declared dared to havo have made fortunes transporting transporting trans trans- porting liquor across the Canadian boundary are perturbed by news from Washington D. D C. C that the federal prohibition enforcement ml machinery of the national capital is turning turning- its at attention attention at- at to the Montana pipe pipeline pipeline pipeline line according to United States officers officers of or- here With Great Grent Falls as the tIle mouth of the funnel the pipe line has three I crossings from Canada it Is said by bv I those in touch with the workings of ot the illegal traffic which Is declared to be well organized and to Include hundreds of homesteaders ders railroad wen men and automobile drivers One re reputed reputed reputed re- re entrance is across the boundary at Sweetgrass This route I follows the Shelby l Great Mont Northern tl to rn Gr Great railway lw Falls II through to The Tho i whisky is said to travel both by train I concealed in coal and anh other heavy freight ht and by bv automobile The principal for the pipe pipeline pipeline line is said Bald to be at a point north of Havre Mont A rancher living on the Milk river some miles below helow the border bor bor- der is said to have accumulated a fortune transferring whisky across the river by a home made aerial cable at a charge of 5 I a case From Havre alternate means of ot transportation are e afforded by railroad or automobile hl highway hway to Great Falls The third route for the transportIng transport- transport Ing lag of liquor liquor- across the line is s said ld to be at Portal In North Dakota Confiscation Confiscation Confiscation Con Con- of automobiles has failed to curtail the traffic Fast motorcars with t plates s 's hung g over them iv un to deflect f bullets now travel in bunches of ot three according to the enforcement men The front car Is a no pathfinder er and trouble trouble trouble trou ble hunter It carries nothing but buta a II party of ot The middle car 1st the carrier and is usuallY loaded with as many cases of whisky as It Itcan Itcan itcan can carry The third car Is a lookout lookout lookout look look- out to prevent enforcement officers I In faster cars from from- coming up from i behind n beB So great reat has the t traffic become It ItIs itis I Is said and so large the quantity of ot I smuggled liquor been that men arrested for tor have complained complained com corn that the Canadian goods can be obtained cheaper than Ulan they can manufacture and sell seU their illicit liquor